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Mandarin Orange Cake

Great cake to take to covered dish suppers. In NC, this is known as the 'Pig Pickin' Cake

1 (18.25 ounce) package Duncan Hines Yellow cake mix
4 large eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 (11 ounce) can Mandarin oranges, with juice

Preheat over to 350 degrees. Beat the cake mis, eggs, oil, oranges and juice together just until smooth. Pour into 3 well-greased and floured 9 inch cake pans. Bake in preheated over for 25 minutes. Cool about 5 minutes before removing from pans. Remove from pans and finish cooling on wire cake racks. Then frost with the icing as follows:

ICING:

1 (3.4 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding and pie filling mix
1 (20 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
1 (12 ounce) carton Cool Whip

Place instant pudding mix in a bowl; add drained pineapple and mix well. Fold in Cool Whip, mixing just until blended, ice cake and then refrigerate. Keep cake refrigerated between servings.

and Suzy Q's remarks:

Hi SarahPanda........I also have had the recipe for the Pig Pickin' Cake for several years and this is just a suggestion of what my recipe calls for. Bake the cake in a greased 13X9 pan for 25-30 minutes and turn out to cool on a cookie sheet or flat surface. When it cools cut the cake lengthwise in half and put the filling between the cake layers and on top and refrigerate. Also my recipe calls for a small box of instant pistachio pudding along with rest of the filling ingredients (also the vanilla instant pudding too)

I just thought maybe you might like to try this idea if you are having a larger gathering and need the cake to go further. Its one of my favorites and goes so good with ham at Easter time.

SuzyQ/Donna